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Minuscule   /mˈɪnəskjˌul/   Listen
Minuscule

adjective
1.
Of or relating to a small cursive script developed from uncial; 7th to 9th centuries.  Synonym: minuscular.
2.
Lowercase.  Synonyms: little, small.  "Small a" , "E.e.cummings's poetry is written all in minuscule letters"
3.
Very small.  Synonym: miniscule.  "A minuscule amount of rain fell"
noun
1.
The characters that were once kept in bottom half of a compositor's type case.  Synonyms: lower-case letter, lowercase, small letter.
2.
A small cursive script developed from uncial between the 7th and 9th centuries and used in medieval manuscripts.





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"Minuscule" Quotes from Famous Books



... ours, sandy soils may seem very open and friable on the surface but frequently hold some unpleasant subsoil surprises. Over geologic time spans, mineral grains are slowly destroyed by weak soil acids and clay is formed from the breakdown products. Then heavy winter rainfall transports these minuscule clay particles deeper into the earth, where they concentrate. It is not unusual to find a sandy topsoil underlaid with a dense, cement-like, clayey sand subsoil extending down several feet. If very impervious, a thick, dense deposition like this may ...
— Gardening Without Irrigation: or without much, anyway • Steve Solomon
... Danish invasion: such are Johannes Scottus Eriugena and Sedulius Scottus. They haunt Liege, Laon, Aix-la-Chapelle, and penetrate to Italy. Not less prolific are the French houses: at Tours the handwriting called the Carolingian minuscule, the parent of our modern "Roman" printing, is developed, though not at Tours alone. At Corbie, Fleury on the Loire, (now called St. Benoit sur Loire), St. Riquier by Abbeville, Rheims, and many another centre in Northern and Eastern France, libraries are accumulated and ancient ...
— The Wanderings and Homes of Manuscripts - Helps for Students of History, No. 17. • M. R. James


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